The change begins with you

MY VOLUNTEERING JOURNEY  As August comes to an end, I can't help but recall the bold move I made to change career last year, due to personal and professional reasons. It was in a week like this that I drafted and redrafted my resignation letter to the Headteacher. I knew that I needed a very strong reason, but my only reason to her at the moment was I needed to work with a Non Government Organization. I had thought about it for a whole year, did an interview with World Vision Uganda, and was still applying. Despite being an influential Class Teacher for a semi-candidate class, she painfully let me go. And my new journey started... After a painful wait of a month and a half, I landed myself an adventurous Volunteering opportunity with Save the Children. Am sure you are wondering how I could leave a full time job for a volunteering opportunity?! I knew what I wanted, and volunteering with an international organization would give me the experience I needed to join the impactful Humani

By 2050 , we will have a global population of around 9.6 billion and we would need the equivalent of almost 3 planets worth of resources to sustain our way of living, if our current consumption and production patterns remain the same. [UNEP, 2011, http://bit.ly/1Niu2q7] Climate Change , in simple terms, refers to any change in climate over time whether due to natural causes, or human activity. In a UN survey, 73% of youth say they currently feel the effects of climate change. [UNEP, GlobeScan Survey, 2008, http://bit.ly/1CtR3zZ].  The intensification of extreme weather and Climate change potentially represents a major threat to the health and livelihoods of youth—especially in developing countries, where 80% of young people live. RECENT EFFECTS OF CLIMATE CHANGE IN UGANDA   WHAT IS VOLUNTARY SERVICE OVERSEAS (VSO) DOING ABOUT IT? Through its DYNAMIC project, VSO is training young people on Climate SMART farming Practices ,as youth make up the majority of the population, and have an inc